until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” ¹ 

Naaman ¹  went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ¹  He imposed on the land a special tax ²  of one hundred talents ³  of silver and a talent of gold.

The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. ¹ 

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ¹  at Riblah in the territory ²  of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

Elisha died and was buried. ¹  Moabite raiding parties invaded ²  the land at the beginning of the year. ³ 

Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria? ¹ 

But he ¹  left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.

Look, I will take control of his mind; ¹  he will receive ²  a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ³  with a sword in his own land.”’”

The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they ¹  made his son Josiah king in his place.

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple ¹  for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ¹  Do you really think you will be rescued? ² 

So the woman did as the prophet said. ¹  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

Pul ¹  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ²  him ³  a thousand talents ⁴  of silver to gain his support ⁵  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ⁶ 

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah. ¹